Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 14 Sep 2006 03:54:20 +1000 | From | Nick Piggin <> | Subject | Re: Why Semaphore Hardware-Dependent? |
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[sorry, I missed some emails when I was out of action a while back. Catching up...]
Andi Kleen wrote: >>and chuck out the "crappy" rwsem fallback implementation > > > What is crappy with it?
I just mean that it is supposedly the second class implementation. Just seems wrong when powerpc has implemented the "better" version in a completely generic way (patch to follow).
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